Social Networking for Babies?

I realize I post about Emma here and in a way am already taking part in something like this, still, there is something profoundly unsettling about this.

NYTimes: Twittering From the Cradle:

Call it convenient. Call it baby overshare. But a host of new sites, including Totspot, Odadeo, Lil’Grams and Kidmondo, now offer parents a chance to forgo the e-mail blasts of, say, their newborn’s first trip home and instead invite friends and family to join and contribute to a network geared to connecting them to the baby in their lives.

“It’s an interesting model,” said Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist for the Pew Internet & American Life Project. “Everyone can decide how much or little they want to know about a baby, which avoids the situation of receiving a few too many e-mails about someone’s wonderful child, and parents can decide how much they want to share — in minimal or maximal ways.”

But does the world really need online social networking for babies?

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One Response to Social Networking for Babies?

  1. Jake says:

    sounds like a cool concept. I’m a member of social networking support site http://www.anxietytribe.com – part of the http://www.webtribes.com family – and I find it very helpful.